The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Y Indian woman, the last of the Humboldt

AN Indian woman, the last of the Humboldt
tribe, recently died at Oakland, d. T.
'ALL rights reserved now appears on the
upper right-hand corner of the English official
consular reports.
A HERD of 900 cattle in Indian Territory were
so frightened ct the approach of a railroad
train that they punched upon each other, "
killing forty-one head.
BOARD was only 81 rs a week and base bal
was unknown when Longfellow attended Bow
doin College Under these circumstances boy
could afford to waste some time on poetry
Boston Globe.
Lon FOSTER, of Scottsville, KY, stole a
watch last Friday evening, and before II o'clock
Saturday morning he had been arrested in
dicted, tried. convicted, sentenced and sent on
MS way to the penitentiary.
A COW in Dodgeyille, Wis, fell to the bottom
of an abandoned mining shaft a distance of
fifty feet. A rope, with lasso attached, was
thrown down the shaft and the animal was
drawn up by the horns uninjured
THE constitution of Rhode Island makes it
necessary to elect new State government every
year. That is the reason why half the people
from that little State are either ex-Governors or
exoccupants of some other State office.
THOMAS BEDFORD (colored), who died in Ches-
ter, Pa, few days ago, is said to have been 107
years Of age. He was born in Havre de Grace
Md, and was a resident of Philadelphia for
more than forty years. He remained in posses
sion of his faculties until death.
THE Society of Physicians of Vienna was in
high feather when the announcement was made
that DR.. Costa lvarenga had bequeathed it
legacy of 900 Portuguese refs. The JOY
was much modified when it was explained that
the money value of all the millions was about
81, 500.
By THE bursting of a water main at New
Haven, Conn. last week, a deep sewer excava-
ton was undermined and two laborers working
there were caught by the falling timbers and
sand. One of the men would probably nave
been drowned had not workmen succeeded III
tunneling under the debris and drawing OF the
water.
JAMES WILKINS, of Laurel county, Kentuky,
became drunk few days ago, and placing him
self on the railroad track he defied an approach
ing train calling out that The was afraid of
nothing in the world" AS the train came up
he seized hold of the pilot as if to wrench it off,
but was thrown down with great violence and
his neck broken.
jim STANLEY started out from Heppner, Ore,
for the mines on horseback, leading pack mule
loaded with giant powder. In passing through
a forest the mule stumbled against a tree, the
powder exploded and the animal was utterly
annihated Several trees were torn up by the
roots from the force of the explosion, but Jim
himself was not injured.
SOME of the farmers of Michigan are doing
their corn husking this fall with common
threshing machine. The concave is lowered and
the concern thrown wide open, so to speak, the
corn being fed into it stalks and ALL The grain
comes out shelled, and the stalks are cut into
chowder that cattle will eat them, root and
branch, and cry for more.
A STRANGER called at a drug store in Quincy,
ILL.,, one evening recently and asked for mix
ture Of nitric and carbolc acids in equal quanti-
ties. Although not practical chemist, MIR.
Oehlman suspected that something was wrong
and refused to compound the preparation. He
afterwards mixed minute quantities of the acids
and narrowly escaped injury from the explosion
which followed.
POSTMASTER ENGLISH, of New Haven, Conn,
recently received letter addressed "to the
most beautiful and intelligent lady in New
Haven of from IS to "A years of age" Not
feeling competent to make the decision Mr.
English consulted the postal authorities at
Washington and has just been directed to send
the epistle to the Dead Letter Office How little
romance there is about government bureau!
The increased attendance at recent public
meeting of the Anarchists Club, in Boston, is
referred to by one of the newspapers of the
Hub" as showing that anarchy is beginning to
have hold on certain citizens of that metropo-
lis. But the class of people who are converted
at these meetings." it adds, ARE usually the
same ones VINO nave been In Inc ranks OF LABOR
agitations, and are ready now to become An
archists if only for the sake of the novelty of
the thing"
Mr.. BLAINE has been having his portrait
painted in Paris by the famous artist Healy
who has placed on canvas the faces of a great
many modern European celebrities. Some
weeks ago Mr.. Healy called on Mr.. Blaine and
asked the Maine statesman to grant him few
sttingS. Mr. Blaine consented and theaportrait
will soon be finished. Healy says that Mr..
Blaine has nose especially fitted for caricature,
and the most peculiar dropping of the mouth he
has ever seen.
DURING MIDSUMMER in Northern Alaska, &C
cording to Arctic traveller, the sun shines
twenty 1.-TWO hours out of the twenty-fou and
on the high mountain peaks for period of sew
eral days in June it is not entirely out of sight
during the twenty-four hours In July and
August the weather becomes very warm After
this time the days gradually shorten until the
sun shines but four hours out of the twenty
four, but at this period the aurora is exceeding
~ intense and helps materially in dispelling the
darkness.
coLoRED CITIZEN of Xenia, O., has sued
the local School Board for refusing to allow his
daughter to receive instruction in the Central
High School of that city; 1t is claimed for the
Board that it alone has the right to assign pupils
to the different buildings, and that the girl in
question passed other school houses and left the
High School devoted to colored children, which
as utdT6I utr nOlut, entered UUe central
High School building without having been as
signed to it by any one i'll authority. The pros
ecution admits these facts, but claim that the
girl was denied instruction solely on account of
color.
THE explorer Holub, who two years ago, on
his wedding day, started with his bride for Cen
trail Africa, has returned to Vienna. He saws he
would have been killed a dozen times in the
little-known region north of the Zambosi if his
wife had not been with him. The natives had
never seen anybody before who wore skirts. nor
anybody who wore long hair, and they regarded
Mrs. Holub as a supernatural being who had
the white man under her special protection
One of the tribes proclaimed her as their queen
and begged hard that she remain with them
The expedition was very unfortunate but Mrs
Holub sustained all his fatigues and dangers
with fortitude, and returned home in good
health.
A TRAVELLER, who has been visiting Hakodadi
in the Island of Hokaida, Japan writes home
that even there he was not free from the inter
rogatories of the newspaper interviewer. IT
had not been in Hakodadi over one day" he
says, before scholarly gentleman approached
me and addressed my interpreter. He had the
honor of representing the Hakodadi newspaper
he said, and would like to ask me some ONE
lions. consented, and he wanted to know NV
full name, residence, occupation. number Of
people employed, object in coming to Janan
and many other matters connected with INV
visit and business, all of which with nv renjies
he committed to paper in the most advanced
reportorial STYLE"
JOHN RooK, bod carrier employed on house
in course of erection in Detroit, Mich. while
nipor t1rNth a lad far,, Il